Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...
When Preacher Wilson got up to reply, the audience began to leave. Vexed, he called for fair play, shouted that prohibition was a "modern miracle," assailed "Drunken England...
...rest of the Alumni team is composed of men who made their mark deep in Harvard athletics. J. P. Chase '28, who will play shortstop, was a hockey and baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three...
...Hollywood last week from Chicago arrived one Charles Loeb, German actor, rouged, dressed in checked pants, derby, tap-dance shoes. He travelled by express in a wooden box pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios, play jack-in-the-box when the case was opened, dance, get a job. Result: Discovered in Culver City, Cal., he was held "on charges of conspiracy to defeat and evade the interstate commerce laws...
...team played an informal match with the Myopia Club on Saturday and will do so again today. The team is at present without the services of captain F. A. Clark '29, who is at Red Top with the crew, but since the first tournament match for Harvard not come until June 22 he will be enabled to play in the outdoor classic, contrary to previous expectations. The scheduled match with Yale at Cambridge for this Saturday has been cancelled since Yale plays Pennsylvania Military College that day in the opening round of the intercollegiates...